Vancouver Community Network
Board Meeting Minutes - May 30, 2000
Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Vancouver Community Network, Board
of Directors, held on Tuesday, May 30, 2000 at 6:30 P.M. in the
Boardroom, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC.
Present: Greg Sturk, Sujay Nazareth, Jonn Olldym, Suzanne Klinga, Alison Curtis, Richard Songhurst, Tom Hanson
Staff: Jason Currell, Carolyn Nantais, Peter Royce
Absent: Penny Goldsmith, Richard Smith, Sadia Ramirez, Steve Forrest,
Chair: Alison Curtis Secretary: Sujay Nazareth
1. Adoption of the Agenda (M/S/C)
2. Acceptance of the minutes of the March 2000 and April 2000 minutes with changes (M/S/C)
3. Jason has decided to take up another job offer. His official last day with the VCN will be
on the 23rd of June. He will continue to be around in a volunteer capacity after this date.
Jason has done some cleaning up of the VCN system. He has written some documentation to
make the transition to a new Systems Administrator easier. Web-Mail is now up and running.
A new Ultra-5 has arrived. It will be used as a back-up server. Ascend 4004 is on order. It
will be used to implement a back-up plan. A committee will be assembled to find a suitable
replacement for Jason. Peter is back at work.
4. The new Bookkeeper is doing a very good job with the books. At the end of April $151,000
was in the bank. Since the beginning of the fiscal year VCN has received $295,000 in
revenue with a surplus of $41,764.00 . Work is still going on to make the statements
easier to read and understand.
Motion to look into getting some Board of Directors Insurance (M/S/C)
Motion that the treasurer's report be accepted (M/S/C)
It was noted that there are various forms of the VCN's name being used. The official name
of the organization is " The Vancouver Community Network" while the service we offer may be
referred to as "The Vancouver Community Net"
5. We're still persevering the smart communities project. Nothing concrete has come up as yet.
The Langara Student Union will be meeting with Peter shortly.
6. There are a few questionable links on the VCN website. We are looking to setup a set of
policies on what links are acceptable to be on the VCN site. Also looking into setting up
a database of all the links on the website. Will be looking into what other Community
Networks policies are on links from their websites. Greg and Peter will report back to the
board on this issue, with some suggestions.
7. John Kerr was elected to the BCCNA Board. VCN was talked about, and was said to be one of
the bigger Community Nets mainly because of the number of phone lines we have. The
Conference in Seattle was very good. There were workshops from9-5. There was a very big
Community Net presence.
8. Looking at organizing a strategic Planning session for the VCN Board.
9. Motion to accept Void Cheques, with printed account information, and also let people bring
in friend's ID cards for the validation of PPP accounts. These are in addition to coming in
personally to apply for one. (M/S/C)
10. There will be a volunteer party on June 2nd at Penny's place at 5:30pm.
11. Alison is to look into Privacy online issues and will report back to the next meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30PM